Illustration for Hand Three, from the adult visual novel The Wager

Mione wins the third hand and takes a very long time over her forfeit, which everybody allows her because it is funny.

MioneBoth of you. Tell me one true thing about the other. Not a nice thing. A true one.

MalfoidShe apologises before she has done anything wrong because she thinks being sorry in advance buys her safety.

PorterShe has not decided what she thinks about anything in four years and it frightens her more than her father does.

Nobody laughs. Mione says, quietly, that she is not sure she has won that hand.

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